After decades of bipartisan reforms that prioritized rehabilitation over punishment, states are moving back toward ...

A 17-year-old was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting that left another teen dead on Saturday night, and is facing ...

Trevor Relerford, 51, who served decades for a 1989 murder, struck a Michigan State Police vehicle while intoxicated with a ...

A 17-year-old in Texas crossed the center line while driving his truck and killed six. He got 65 years in a case that ruined ...

I don't think Wisconsin can afford to drag its feet while people are dying… It is high time for there to be some political urgency around the closure of these prisons and a real, committed goal to ...

Nell Bernstein, a leading voice on youth incarceration, discusses the failures of the juvenile punishment model, the ...

A new report from Solitary Watch details systemic abuse in New York prisons, citing physical violence, deprivation of basic ...

The Massachusetts man's mother died before seeing her son's parole hearing, but her encouragement helped transform him during ...

Do you believe that people who have committed crimes can be rehabilitated?This is a question that workers in Japan's prisons ...

If Bill S.1087 becomes law, anyone who was under 21 when convicted of manslaughter or first- or second-degree murder and ...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. — After a man who was handed a life sentence for murder as a teenager got out on parole and allegedly committed another violent crime, the murder victim’s son was left asking why he ...

Sweden is preparing to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13, a controversial attempt to tackle gang violence. Could other EU countries follow Sweden's example? In September, Prime Minister ...